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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Iridium Satellite Llc, McLean, VA (US);

Inventor:

Jeffrey Francis Bull, Chalfont, PA (US);

Assignee:

IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLC, McLean, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01); H01Q 3/26 (2006.01); H04B 17/21 (2015.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01); H04B 1/12 (2006.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 1/44 (2006.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 52/52 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/243 (2013.01); H01Q 3/2605 (2013.01); H01Q 3/267 (2013.01); H04B 1/123 (2013.01); H04B 1/126 (2013.01); H04B 1/44 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01); H04B 7/18517 (2013.01); H04B 7/18519 (2013.01); H04B 17/21 (2015.01); H04B 17/345 (2015.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 52/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one implementation, a wireless communication terminal includes a primary antenna array and a first controller configured to steer a main beam of the primary antenna array in a desired direction. The wireless communication terminal also includes an auxiliary antenna array and a second controller configured to control complex weights to be applied by at least some antenna elements of the auxiliary antenna array to corresponding variants of a second signal received by the at least some auxiliary antenna elements. Furthermore, the wireless communication terminal includes at least one signal combiner configured to combine variants of the second signal received from auxiliary antenna elements into an interfering signal that models interference from a co-located wireless communication terminal and subtract the interfering signal from variants of the first signal received from antenna elements of the principal antenna array to produce an interference mitigated signal.


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